Henry Medwall

Fulgens and Lucrece (c.1497), whose heroine must choose between two suitors, is the earliest known secular English play.

He stayed at the court of Cardinal Morton, Chancellor in the time of Henry VII.

With a living at Balinghem in English Calais, he is assumed to have worked for John Morton at Lambeth Palace.

[1][4] Nature was produced before Morton in Henry VII's reign; John Bale states that it was translated into Latin.

[1] Another interlude that has been ascribed to Medwall, Of the Finding of Truth, carried away by Ignorance and Hypocrisy, was said to have introduced a fool, an innovation which commended it to Henry VIII when it was produced before him at Richmond, Christmas 1516; the king, however, left early.